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Cloudflare has announced that every customer (including those who only use its free services) will receive a new feature called Unmetered Mitigation, which protects against every DDoS attack, regardless of its size. The standard practice in the industry for some time has been to charge more if you come under attack, but CEO Matthew Prince wanted to change that.
Though illegal, groups like Anonymous and other hacktivists have argued DDoS attacks are a form of digital protest. Flooding a site with internet traffic, to them, is like filling a town square with people, or holding a sit-in. Knocking a website offline is seen as akin to physically preventing people from entering a building. DDoS attacks have been used to protest everything from a country's nuclear policy to the Church of Scientology.
Though illegal, groups like Anonymous and other hacktivists have argued DDoS attacks are a form of digital protest. Flooding a site with internet traffic, to them, is like filling a town square with people, or holding a sit-in. Knocking a website offline is seen as akin to physically preventing people from entering a building. DDoS attacks have been used to protest everything from a country's nuclear policy to the Church of Scientology.